While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the sense…

- George Combe

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by…

- George Combe

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This pro…

- George Combe

A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity i…

- George Combe

The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me ver…

- George Combe

Individuals possessing moderate-sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances t…

- George Combe

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as…

- George Combe

Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness and Ideality, intr…

- George Combe